Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 332
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a song and lyrics from Tim McGraw singing … Always Be Humble and Kind … poignantly singing of how we. as messengers of our God, should ALWAYS be humble and kind with our words and actions.
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Highlight Passage: … Job 5:7 [NLT] …
7 People are born for trouble as readily as sparks fly up from a fire.
… One of Job’s friends, speaks a judgment to Job which is born out of personal judgment rather than Godly wisdom, … advice with an element of truth but best unsaid given Job’s tragedies and his pain.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Job 6:17-27 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
…One of Job’s so-called “friends” spouts forth his inaccurate and very judgmental advice about Job’s calamity.
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Reference Passage: … Matthew 7:1-5 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK ...
… Jesus preaches truth about withholding judgment of others in many instances when we, ourselves, are guilty of the many of the same sins.
Reference Passage: … Romans 2:1-3 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul warns fellow Christians to avoid hypocritical judgment of others when we, ourselves, often are guilty of how we judge others.
Reference Passage: … Ephesians 4:29b [NLT] …
9 … Let EVERYTHING you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them.
… Paul exhorts all Christians (that’s us too!!) to withhold judgmental words to others, using only words which will give grace and uplift others.
Reference Passage: … James 4:12 [NLT] …
12 God alone, Who gave the law, is the Judge. He alone has the power to save or to destroy. So what right do you have to judge your neighbor?
… God, thru James, charges believers to let God be the judge of others rather than judging them ourselves.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Mart DeHaan, AT THIS LINK … writes about Fred Allen, a radio comedian back in the golden days of radio [in the early 1900s] who once saved a boy from certain death and was critically quoted as saying to the boy, “What’s the matter with you, kid? Don’t you want to grow up and have troubles?”
With that comedic, but crass, remark from Fred Allen, the ODB author today was trying to show that there are just some critical or judgmental words which should be withheld because of their hypocrisy or hurtfulness. And that was certainly the case with some of the comments and criticisms which Job’s so-called “friends” spoke to Job while he was going thru all the loss/pain Job experienced [see highlight passage and the attached photo).
So, the point we need to take away from these thoughts today is best summarized in the wisdom shared in the linked song and the Scriptures above. For if we speak and live by such Godly wisdom, we’ll more likely honor God with our lives than if we bespeak hasty personal judgments or criticisms of others.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, …for showing us the way to speak to others from the wisdom of Your word, Lord.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to be careful with the words we share, making sure they give grace or encourage others and withholding personal critiques or judgments. … Amen
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